jdd wrote: > richard (MQ) wrote: >> Earlier versions of SuSE / OpenSuSE ran (albeit slowly) on low-end >> machines - YaST installation detecting the lack of RAM and requesting >> swap before continuing. >> >> Tried 10.3 Beta-1 (KDE single CD) on one such (Pentium-1, 133 MHz, 80 M >> RAM, 2G HDD with swap already prepared - runs OSL 10.0 at present). >> Install (standard and 'safe settings' tried) aborts with a kernel panic >> 'out of memory' shortly after 'moving into tmpfs', no attempt to ask for >> swap. >> >> Is this expected / intended behaviour? - in which case it might be nice >> to warn potential users! Very little on the wiki about minimum spec... >> > > I could run the kde beta1 cd live with only 128Mb ram on a PIII 750 > computer, not really usable, but starts (the same one runs without > problem a 10.2)
Please see bug 303610 and Steffen Winterfeldt's explanation https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=303610 I don't see it on a Pentium-1 133MHz with 144M RAM. It seems the threshold is ~ 100 MBytes I'm planning to add a bit to the Wiki regarding low-end hardware - based on the comments in this bug - when I've worked out how to... -- Cheers Richard (MQ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
